Recent content by Mikestone8

Has Armenia been absorbed into the SU? If so the Turks might indeed join in Barbarossa.

When I was around 14 or 15 I started a yarn where two time travellers went back to the Battle of Gettysburg and accidentally changed its outcome. Returning to their own time they found the Confederacy still existing and the map of Europe totally different. However I think that was as far as I...

If Lincoln lives, the VP's opinions won't make a diddlysquat of difference - especially in his case, given his embarrassing performance at the inaugural. Lincoln will pay no attention to them unless they happen to coincide with his own. One amusing thought. Could Johnson actually be taken up by...

Fair enough. But can we then agree that any such measures are going to be pretty limited, and that, as OTL, the vast majority of freedmen will still be farm labourers or at best sharecroppers, rather than owning land, and that any massive redistribution, such as Stevens wanted, almost certainly...

Further thought. He might also have pushed for Section 2 to include a proviso that anyone over 21 who had served in the Union Army or Navy should be entitled to vote regardless of race or colour. This would probably have satisfied most Republicans, before their battles with Johnson radicalised...

Probably because the Republicans saw this idea as having been superseded by the 15th Amendment, and, later, that falling back on it would be too embarrassing a confession that the 15A was unenforceable. Such a proposal *was* included in their 1904 platform, but the Democratic landslide of 1910...

That's why I said one or other version. I think it distinctly possible that the original one would have gone too far for Lincoln as well as Johnson. But Lincoln, unlike Johnson, almost certainly *would* have signed the later version. Incidentally, how much land would be involved? There's an...

Why would Lincoln want more radical measures? His big job now is to rebuild the Union. He'll do what he can for the Freedmen, but at the end of the day reconciling the South to reunion will have to come first. I quite agree that he'll sign the Civil Rights bill, and one version or the other of...

Well, he only had a small derringer and it only needs someone to be in his way or grab his arm to stop him getting a clear shot. Lincoln very probably survives. Well, if Booth's co-conspirators are caught, most of them will still hang, though Mary Surratt may not. Doctor Mudd won't be...

Perhaps if the Great Compromise (giving all states an equal vote in the Senate, doesn't get through (iirc iit finally passed 5-4). And as a result the smaller states refuse to ratify. This would have been dangerous as, except for GA, all the smaller states lay north of the Potomac, and until...

Why? If we had to unload ourselves of an unacceptable King, there were plenty of Princes and Princesses waiting in the wings. Keep in mind that British army officers were commonly sons or brothers of MPs or even MPs themselves, so a King who suppresses Parliament is inviting a military coup...

I think Charles Oman suggested it, because the name "Cerdic" bears a suspicious resemblance to Caradoc or Coroticus. Alfred Duggan used the idea in his novel Conscience of the King.

He was half-Danish, his mother Gytha being King Canute.'s cousin. I've seen it claimed online that his father Godwin was descended from Alfred the Great's elder brother, but ain't sure if this claim can be taken seriously

That and all the heads he chopped off [1] There's a reason that he is the only King of England whose picture *every* Brit would instantly recognise. [1] I often wonder whether the expression "chopping and changing" dates from his reign.

I doubt if a purely defensive strategy is politically possible. Men will still get killed in sizeable numbers, and if there's no sign that anybody is doing anything to *defeat* Germany, the governments will almost certainly fall. Wiith such huge chunks of Allied territory in Germna hands, the...